Ghostface has a brand new goal.
Isabel May, greatest recognized for starring in Yellowstone prequels 1883 and 1923, has nabbed the plum position of Neve Campbell’s daughter in Scream 7 and is in talks to star reverse the Scream Queen.
The seventh installment of the horror franchise, being made by Spyglass Leisure, is in rebuilding mode after shedding its younger stars Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera. Campbell, who sat out the earlier installment due to a wage dispute, is again for the brand new characteristic that can deal with her character, Sidney Prescott, and her daughter.
Kevin Williamson — the creator of the franchise who penned the script to the Wes Craven-directed authentic, in addition to Scream 2 and Scream 4 — is directing. Man Busick, who wrote 2022‘s Scream and Scream VI, wrote the script.
Paramount Photos is about to launch Scream 7 in theaters on Feb. 27, 2026. Challenge X Leisure’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein function producers.
Campbell’s casting got here as the brand new film was in want of a artistic reset. Barrera was fired from the franchise final yr following social media posts addressing the Israel-Hamas battle, and Ortega had quietly exited the mission months earlier. Within the wake of these exits, the installment’s authentic director Christopher Landon introduced that he was stepping away.
Filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, often called Radio Silence, helped deliver the collection again to prominence with 2022’s Scream. Final yr’s Scream VI, which the pair additionally directed, collected $166.3 million on the world field workplace.
Wes Craven directed the unique 1996 movie Scream from the script that Williamson initially wrote on spec. Sidney has been on the coronary heart of the franchise since that first film, which additionally starred Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers and David Arquette as Dewey Riley.
As well as to taking part in Elsa Dutton in 1883 and 1923, May had a job in the 2022 rom-com characteristic I Need You Again and co-starred in the Apple TV+ collection Masters of the Air. She is repped by CAA and Principal Leisure.
